Episodes

  • The Mr. Big Confession: What Happened to Jennifer Hillier-Penney?

    The Mr. Big Confession: What Happened to Jennifer Hillier-Penney?
    May 29 2026
    On the morning of December 1, 2016, a teenage girl woke up to the sound of her mother's cellphone alarm ringing endlessly from the kitchen table. Jennifer Hillier-Penney's purse was still there. Her coat was still there. Her boots, passport, vehicle, and personal belongings had all been left behind. Jennifer was nowhere to be found. What followed was one of Newfoundland and Labrador's most haunting missing persons cases. For years, Jennifer's family searched for answers while rumours spread through the small town of St. Anthony. Many believed they knew what had happened, but the police made no arrest, and Jennifer's body was never found. Then, behind the scenes, the RCMP launched one of the largest undercover Mr. Big operations in the province's history. Over four years, undercover officers built an elaborate fake criminal organization designed to gain the trust of one man: Jennifer's estranged husband, Dean Penney. Seven years after Jennifer disappeared, a confession on a boat in Vancouver Harbour would change everything. Sources: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/dean-penney-charged-in-mr-big-sting-found-guilty-of-first-degree-murder/ https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-telegram-st-johns/20260403/281573772242968 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/marina-jennifer-hillier-penney-life-insurance-1.5398038 https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/jennifer-hillier-penney-murderer https://pleasebringmehome.com/canada/jennifer-hillier-penney/ https://halifax.citynews.ca/2026/05/25/mr-big-sting-for-n-l-man-guilty-of-killing-estranged-wife-involved-100-officers/ https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/derick-hilliers-parents-defend-innocence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zEUjBvluWY Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 mins
  • A Voice in the Dark: The Murder of Amber Tuccaro

    A Voice in the Dark: The Murder of Amber Tuccaro
    May 27 2026
    In August 2010, 20-year-old Amber Tuccaro flew from Fort McMurray to Edmonton with her young son, Jacob, hoping for a short getaway and a break from the stress of everyday life. Within hours, Amber vanished. What followed became one of the most haunting unsolved cases in Canadian history. Years later, the RCMP released a chilling audio recording captured during a 17-minute phone call Amber made while riding with an unidentified man down dark rural Alberta roads. In the recording, you can hear Amber slowly realizing something is terribly wrong as the driver calmly takes her in the opposite direction of where she wanted to go. And somehow, despite the world hearing the possible killer’s voice… nobody has ever been charged. If you have any information about Amber Tuccaro’s murder, please contact Alberta RCMP or Crime Stoppers anonymously. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7dL1Qro46g https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/amber-tuccaro-phone-call-1.1200955 https://www.crcc-ccetp.gc.ca/en/interim-report-public-complaint-investigation-into-amber-tuccaro-missing-person-investigation https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/amber-tuccaro-rcmp-apology-1.5305103 https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/rcmp-apologize-to-family-of-amber-tuccaro-for-errors-in-missing-person-investigation https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/remains-found-near-leduc-confirmed-as-missing-woman-amber-tuccaro-1.1165203 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/women-identify-voice-on-amber-tuccaro-recording-1.1206490 https://albertapressleader.ca/man-claims-audio-recording-of-man-with-murder-victim-amber-tuccaro-is-his-father-alberta-press/ Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • The Stockdale Family Murders: What Happened After Wife Swap

    The Stockdale Family Murders: What Happened After Wife Swap
    May 22 2026
    In 2008, millions of Americans watched the Stockdale family on Wife Swap and saw a deeply religious, old-fashioned family trying to shield their children from the modern world. They lived on a rural Ohio farm, homeschooled their sons, banned television and dating, and spent their lives performing together as a bluegrass gospel band. To some viewers, they seemed wholesome and disciplined. To others, deeply unsettling. Nearly a decade later, the Stockdales would make headlines again for something far darker. On June 15th, 2017, deputies responded to a 911 hang-up call at the family farmhouse and discovered a horrifying scene: 54-year-old Kathy Stockdale and her youngest son James had been shot to death. Nearby was 25-year-old Jacob Stockdale, alive after a failed suicide attempt. As investigators searched for answers, people began revisiting the old Wife Swap episode looking for clues. Had the family’s extreme isolation played a role? Did years of emotional repression contribute to what happened? Or was this ultimately the result of severe mental illness hidden beneath the surface of a seemingly disciplined family life? Sources: https://www.dispatch.com/news/20170617/disbelief-sadness-set-in-after-stockdale-family-shootings https://people.com/wife-swap-reality-show-murders-revisited-11757223 https://allthatsinteresting.com/jacob-stockdale-wife-swap-murders https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2021/04/28/jacob-stockdale-enters-plea-mother-brothers-slaying/7389350002/?gca-cat=p&gnt-cfr=1 Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 mins
  • The Baby in the Crib: The Eastburn Murders

    The Baby in the Crib: The Eastburn Murders
    May 20 2026
    The Eastburn family looked like the picture of a happy military family in 1985. Gary Eastburn was away at training. His wife Kathryn was home in North Carolina with their three little girls, preparing for the family’s upcoming move to England. Then, on Mother’s Day weekend, a neighbour noticed newspapers piling up in the driveway. Inside the house, police would find a scene so brutal it would haunt investigators for decades. Kathryn Eastburn and her daughters, Kara and Erin, had been murdered. Only 22-month-old Jana survived, found alone in her crib after spending days trapped inside the home. Almost immediately, suspicion fell on a fellow serviceman named Timothy Hennis, a husband and father who had visited the Eastburn home just days earlier after answering an ad about the family dog. What followed became one of the most shocking legal sagas in true crime history:a conviction, a death sentence, an acquittal, and then a DNA bombshell twenty years later that changed everything all over again. Sources: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/07/three-trials-for-murder? https://www.wral.com/news/local/topic/timothy_hennis/ https://www.fayobserver.com/search/?q=Timothy+Hennis https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/timothy-hennis-found-guilty-eastburn-family-murders/story?id=10290831 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/timothy-hennis-convicted-again https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hennis-timothy.htm Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    53 mins
  • The Wife, The Mistress, and the Murders: Betty Broderick Case

    The Wife, The Mistress, and the Murders: Betty Broderick Case
    May 15 2026
    Betty Broderick became one of America’s most infamous killers. She also became something much stranger: a woman thousands of people thought they understood. In 1989, Betty walked into the San Diego home of her ex-husband, high-powered attorney Dan Broderick, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena, and shot them while they slept. The murders shocked the country. But what shocked people even more was how divided the reaction became afterward. Because this was a murder story about a marriage that rotted slowly and publicly over years. About betrayal, obsession, humiliation, aging, power, and the terrifying feeling of being replaced in your own life. Before the headlines, Betty was the loyal Catholic wife who worked and sacrificed while Dan built his fortune. Together they climbed from struggling young parents living on food stamps to wealthy La Jolla socialites with luxury cars, private schools, and country club memberships. Then Dan left her for a younger woman. And Betty unraveled in ways that became impossible to ignore. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/betty-broderick-dead.html https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com https://people.com/crime/betty-broderick-children-where-are-they-now/ https://people.com/crime/betty-broderick-case-timeline https://apnews.com/article/4f5f9d7d1a4e4e7fa6a6df95f4d0cbe5 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-23-mn-4830-story.html Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • The Psychic Who Found Melanie Uribe: Etta Smith's Vision

    The Psychic Who Found Melanie Uribe: Etta Smith's Vision
    May 14 2026
    Melanie Uribe was just trying to get to work. On December 15th, 1980, the 31-year-old nurse and single mother vanished on her way to a night shift in California. Hours later, her burned truck was discovered abandoned on a dead-end road. Witnesses reported hearing screams and seeing men force their way into her vehicle at a stoplight before driving away. Then the case took a turn nobody could explain. A woman named Etta Smith walked into a police station claiming she had experienced a vivid vision showing where Melanie’s body could be found. She described a remote canyon police had not searched, then personally led investigators straight to Melanie’s remains. Instead of being praised for helping, Etta became the prime suspect. In this episode of Serial Napper, we dive into one of the strangest murder investigations in California history. Was Etta Smith psychic? Was it intuition, coincidence, or something else entirely? And why did police become so convinced that the woman who found Melanie’s body had to somehow be involved in her murder? This is the story of Melanie Uribe, Etta Smith, and the case that still leaves people debating the impossible decades later. Sources: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-27-me-381-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-27-me-76-story.html https://time.com/archive/6708759/crime-etta-smiths-fatal-vision/ https://unsolved.com/gallery/premonition-of-murder https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-27-me-76-story.html? Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • The Men at the Door: The Disappearance of Elnaz Hajtamiri

    The Men at the Door: The Disappearance of Elnaz Hajtamiri
    May 8 2026
    37-year-old Elnaz Hajtamiri knew she was in danger. Weeks before she vanished, she survived a violent attack in the underground parking garage of her Richmond Hill condo after two masked men allegedly tried to kidnap her. She was beaten with a frying pan so severely that she required roughly 40 stitches. Terrified, Elnaz left her home and went into hiding with her family in Wasaga Beach, Ontario. But on the night of January 12, 2022, three masked men posing as police officers arrived at the house with fake badges, fake police vests, and what appeared to be a warrant. Within moments, Elnaz was dragged barefoot through the snow and forced into a white Lexus SUV. She has never been seen again. In this episode of Serial Napper, we revisit the chilling disappearance of Elnaz Hajtamiri, including major new developments in the investigation and the recent guilty plea from her ex-boyfriend, Mohamad Lilo, who admitted to conspiracy to kidnap in exchange for murder charges being dropped. We examine the alleged stalking, tracking devices, organized criminal connections, private investigators, fake police uniforms, and the haunting reality that, despite years of arrests and court proceedings, Elnaz’s family still does not know where she is. If you have any information about the disappearance of Elnaz Hajtamiri, please contact the Ontario Provincial Police at 1-888-310-1122 or submit an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers. A $100,000 reward remains available for information leading to her location. Sources: https://www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/article/mohamad-lilo-beats-murder-charge-takes-plea-deal-in-elnaz-hajtamiri-kidnapping-conspiracy/ https://www.instagram.com/bringelnazhome/ https://www.gofundme.com/f/bring-elnaz-home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGh-3-0Yels https://www.innisfiltoday.ca/local-news/mother-of-abducted-woman-longs-to-hug-her-daughter-again-6368435 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lawyer-questions-police-took-safety-seriously-woman-abducted-1.6368706 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ex-boyfriend-elnaz-hajtamiri-private-investigator-1.6427398 https://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/10607623-brampton-man-charged-another-wanted-in-alleged-assault-of-woman-later-reportedly-abducted-from-wasaga-beach/ https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/mohamad-lilo-s-new-lawyer-maintains-client-s-innocence-in-elnaz-hajtamiri-abduction-1.6223258 Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    48 mins
  • What Came Up Through the Pipes: The Killings of Rori Hache & Kandis Fitzpatrick

    What Came Up Through the Pipes: The Killings of Rori Hache & Kandis Fitzpatrick
    May 6 2026
    An apartment building in Oshawa had a clogged drain. By the end of the day, police would uncover one of Canada’s most horrifying murder investigations. When plumbers pulled a strange pink, flesh-like substance from the pipes of a basement apartment in December 2017, they immediately called police. What officers found inside the apartment of Adam Strong would shock even seasoned investigators: human remains in a freezer, blood spatter on the walls and ceiling, and evidence linking Strong not just to 18-year-old Rori Hache, but also to Kandis Fitzpatrick, a young woman who had vanished nearly a decade earlier. Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/adam-strong-sentenced-to-life-1.6044616 https://criminallawoshawa.com/adam-strong-convicted-of-first-degree-murder-and-manslaughter/ https://globalnews.ca/news/7366282/adam-strong-double-murder-trial-oshawa/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/adam-strong-trial-begins-1.5741888 https://www.durhamregion.com/news/crime/panicky-adam-strong-was-anxious-to-fix-plumbing-murder-trial-hears/article_5fbd3e0b-b6df-5c97-a02a-98a504ca7f98.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/remains-of-kandis-fitzpatrick-found-14-years-after-she-went-missing-1.6353740 https://www.durhamregion.com/news/family-of-murdered-oshawa-teen-rori-hache-appeals-for-support-for-funeral-costs/article_1d3e8974-90fa-5d6d-963f-44abd374efd1.html https://unidentified-awareness.fandom.com/wiki/Kandis_Fitzpatrick https://www.durhamregion.com/news/accused-killer-adam-strong-showed-off-sex-video-bragged-of-dungeon-court-hears/article_22324a18-27c0-5558-9c67-b5d2ab6c9f70.html#:~:text=WARNING:%20This%20story%20contains%20details,of%20people%20dying%2C%20court%20heard Follow me here: ► YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@SerialNapper/ ► Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/serialnappernik/ ► Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SerialNapper/ ► TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@serialnappernik *Go Ad-Free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SerialNapper * Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 mins